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Galileo Galilei – Good Shoes

Clarification: One of the later lines refers to raptors overhead. The particular bird mentioned it the トンビ, or black kite. Apparently, its cry is very well-known in Japan. Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=975yohQ9BdE

Also, I bent my romaji policy a little and just put in extra words without parens or anything.

I’m really weak to these “lost-childhood” type lyrics.

Good ShoesLyrics: Ozaki Yuuki
Composition: Galileo Galilei

In those days when we chose the same dirty, plain shoes and wore them so comfortably,
As though gliding over the granite, we lightly, gently fell in love.

The two of us played in a puddle of water that no one else knew,
Leaping and flying, dyeing our bare feet in that upside-down sky.

Dusk arrives.
The two of, all tired out,
Hide our green-stained feet in our sneakers.
Good shoes, good shoes.
These are good shoes, good shoes, we laugh.

Like a roll of tape stretched to its end, with happiness always a half-tone down,
“Ah, we can’t go on like this,” you said, as though singing to me as I wake.

The two us watched as that pool of water dried away.
The raptors that cried out above are whispering something to us.

If I could grow wings, I’m sure that everything would go fluttering in the air.

Evening rain.
You told me that you were leaving.
I wash the green stains off my feet with the raindrops.
Good shoes, good shoes, good shoes, good shoes.
Let’s put our good shoes on.

YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL ME too much, too much
YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL ME too much, too much
YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL ME, YOU KILL ME too much, too much
YOU KILL ME too much

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4 thoughts on “Galileo Galilei – Good Shoes”

It’s lovely to see this translated, only started listening to Galileo Galilei recently, because I watched Anohana and just had to hear more! You’re right, something about this song just screams ‘lost childhood’, even without the translation! Lovely, sad lyrics!